http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2009/04/festival-reading-fugitive-pieces-and-red-dress-walking/ One girl, one dream ... and a whole lot of procrastination Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:24:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2009/04/festival-reading-fugitive-pieces-and-red-dress-walking/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 S.A. Jones Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:06:43 +0000 http://becomingafictionwriter.com/?p=292#comment-2796 Thank you, reviewer, for your kind words regarding Red Dress Walking. I simply couldn't resist responding to your comments. I've been hearing a lot lately about how RDW doesn't fit neatly into any given genre and have been somewhat bemused about the amount of stress this seems to be causing! I deliberately wrote RDW between these cracks to structurally mirror a thematic imperative: that we are never in the relationship we think we are in. We begin with a set of assumptions, positions, expectations and wake one day to discover they have been eroded or compromised beyond all recognition. Hence, my decision to minimise geography in the novel. As you rightly intuit, I wanted the landscape to be psychological and subterranean... Thank you, reviewer, for your kind words regarding Red Dress Walking. I simply couldn’t resist responding to your comments. I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how RDW doesn’t fit neatly into any given genre and have been somewhat bemused about the amount of stress this seems to be causing! I deliberately wrote RDW between these cracks to structurally mirror a thematic imperative: that we are never in the relationship we think we are in. We begin with a set of assumptions, positions, expectations and wake one day to discover they have been eroded or compromised beyond all recognition. Hence, my decision to minimise geography in the novel. As you rightly intuit, I wanted the landscape to be psychological and subterranean…

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